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New State-Level Research Debunks the Myth of Immigrant Criminality

Released on Wed, Jul 16, 2008

Recent data from New Jersey and California which once again confirms what researchers have found repeatedly over the past 100 years: immigrants are less likely than the native-born to be in prison, and high rates of immigration are not associated with higher rates of crime.

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[1] http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/docs/DebunkingImmigrantCriminality7-08.pdf